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Yellow Boulder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $25,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICE | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANGUILLA MUSIC ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| A KID AGAIN | $5,000 |
| THE BRIAN MUHA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OHIO ECOLOGICAL FOOD AND FARM ASSN | $5,000 |
| SIGNIFICANCE OF ONE | $4,200 |
| CAPITAL AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $229k · revenue +9%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +18%
- VCVETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICES5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $100k
- NCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TCTEEN CANCER AMERICA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…
The Children's Organ Transplant Association helps children and young adults who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
Beyond celiac unites with patients and partners to drive diagnosis, advance research, and accelerate the discovery of new treatments and a cure.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Trust for Americas Health promotes optimal health for every person and community and makes the prevention of illness and injury a national priority.
To empower the congenital heart disease (chd) community by advancing access to resources and specialized care that improve patient-centered outcomes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 5KforJK Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds 5KforJK Inc ↗
- Who funds TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY NEW ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Assoc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Missions on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR HUMANE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MCORE Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND FREE STORE ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Yellow Boulder Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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